Comments on: yours for the apocalypse http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/12/29/yours-for-the-apocalypse/ tales of marauding, plundering, and international gorilla conspiracy Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:02:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ts http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/12/29/yours-for-the-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-37561 ts Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:21:52 +0000 http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/?p=150#comment-37561 Lark- Well, I have yet to teach anyone how to hunt cockroaches. I am not sure I myself have this knowledge, though one of my roommates in college had a bizarre vacuum type device intended for the purpose. The one time she used it she flipped out and refused to empty it because it was too gross. So that was the end of that experiment. Nikki says she is happy we are going back and forth on her comments, but if you care to switch to another medium to carry on the conversation, I'm all for it (I'm her cousin, Tara). My actual base of knowledge runs more toward rope and net making, in addition to vegetable growing and eating. Lark- Well, I have yet to teach anyone how to hunt cockroaches. I am not sure I myself have this knowledge, though one of my roommates in college had a bizarre vacuum type device intended for the purpose. The one time she used it she flipped out and refused to empty it because it was too gross. So that was the end of that experiment.
Nikki says she is happy we are going back and forth on her comments, but if you care to switch to another medium to carry on the conversation, I’m all for it (I’m her cousin, Tara). My actual base of knowledge runs more toward rope and net making, in addition to vegetable growing and eating.

]]> By: Lark http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/12/29/yours-for-the-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-37446 Lark Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:52:38 +0000 http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/?p=150#comment-37446 ts- Ha! That does sound rough. But you teach kids how to survive after the apocalypse and hunt cockroaches for a living? How neat. ts- Ha! That does sound rough. But you teach kids how to survive after the apocalypse and hunt cockroaches for a living? How neat.

]]> By: ts http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/12/29/yours-for-the-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-37323 ts Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:24:22 +0000 http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/?p=150#comment-37323 Lark- Its worse, if you can imagine. I'm the recycling coordinator for an entire college, so not only do I get to design and run the recycling program, I also get to buy all the bins and fight with contractors and employ a small herd of students to pick the stuff up. And pretend I care! If the other half of my job wasn't teaching kids how to survive after the apocalypse, I would have quit long ago. Cause if we manage to survive (at all), I imagine it will be cause there's enough land somewhere to grow some veggies, and there will always be cockroaches for protein. Lark- Its worse, if you can imagine. I’m the recycling coordinator for an entire college, so not only do I get to design and run the recycling program, I also get to buy all the bins and fight with contractors and employ a small herd of students to pick the stuff up. And pretend I care! If the other half of my job wasn’t teaching kids how to survive after the apocalypse, I would have quit long ago. Cause if we manage to survive (at all), I imagine it will be cause there’s enough land somewhere to grow some veggies, and there will always be cockroaches for protein.

]]> By: Lark http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/12/29/yours-for-the-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-37039 Lark Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:05:39 +0000 http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/?p=150#comment-37039 ts- holy shit, I also used to be a recycling technician (if that's the job you were referring to hen you were up to your knees in beer cans). I worked for the Virginia Solid Waste Authority shoveling bottles and running the cardboard compactor. And yes, recycling is just a fucking band-aid for our ginormous problems that does absolutely nothing to stop the steamroller of doom that is our culture of consumption, spreading like wildfire across the globe. <cite>I reckon it’s probably going to be forced on us ... long before we’ve tried to change, and whether we remembered to turn off the light in the living room or not. Hopefully, by then, we’ll all have already learned how to grow vegetables and skin deer.</cite> I don't think vegetables will be able to grow. By that point. The bare soil that does exist between power plants and culdesacs will be so contaminated with nuclear fallout that nothing will grow. The deer will have three heads and live on carrion. Our species will be merely a memory in the mind of some ancient tortoise that once lived in the San Francisco zoo before The Fall. Happy New Year! Woohoo!! ts- holy shit, I also used to be a recycling technician (if that’s the job you were referring to hen you were up to your knees in beer cans). I worked for the Virginia Solid Waste Authority shoveling bottles and running the cardboard compactor. And yes, recycling is just a fucking band-aid for our ginormous problems that does absolutely nothing to stop the steamroller of doom that is our culture of consumption, spreading like wildfire across the globe.

I reckon it’s probably going to be forced on us … long before we’ve tried to change, and whether we remembered to turn off the light in the living room or not. Hopefully, by then, we’ll all have already learned how to grow vegetables and skin deer.

I don’t think vegetables will be able to grow. By that point. The bare soil that does exist between power plants and culdesacs will be so contaminated with nuclear fallout that nothing will grow. The deer will have three heads and live on carrion. Our species will be merely a memory in the mind of some ancient tortoise that once lived in the San Francisco zoo before The Fall.

Happy New Year! Woohoo!!

]]> By: doodle http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/12/29/yours-for-the-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-36919 doodle Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:25:38 +0000 http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/?p=150#comment-36919 That is exactly why I love "As the World Burns (or Fifty Ways to Stay in Denial)", and why it lives in the happy little book carousel next to my blog. Which by the way, is supposed to be there to somehow make me money, hahaha. Sigh. That is exactly why I love “As the World Burns (or Fifty Ways to Stay in Denial)”, and why it lives in the happy little book carousel next to my blog. Which by the way, is supposed to be there to somehow make me money, hahaha.

Sigh.

]]> By: ts http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/2008/12/29/yours-for-the-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-36879 ts Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:02:24 +0000 http://www.clickclackgorilla.com/?p=150#comment-36879 Ugh I hate that book, even though I own it and its companion, "50 More Simple Things blah blah blah". They also published the Recycler's Handbook, which is actually the most helpful of the three, because it allows me to put down the people who are all like, "but it has a recycling symbol on the bottom, why can't it be recycled?" And I get to say things like, "first it's POLYSTYRENE not fucking styrofoam, which is the trade name for something it is now illegal to produce (CFCs), and second, just because they put a recycling sign on something doesn't mean there's someone out there who will bother to recycle it. It's too expensive and inefficient to recycle something like polystyrene which is a really shitty complex polymer that never should have been invented. But they put the recycle sign on there anyway to make you feel better about yourself, and then people like me have to sort out all the recycling to take out the stuff idiots like you think can be recycled, because everyone seems to have this idea that recycling is a magical way to solve the waste problem, like a fairy is standing there waving a magic wand and making it all better. Why don't YOU stand out in the cold rain up to your elbows in stale beer and rotten dairy products, sorting recycling, and then you'll get a good idea of how the magic fairy lives." Ugh I hate that book, even though I own it and its companion, “50 More Simple Things blah blah blah”. They also published the Recycler’s Handbook, which is actually the most helpful of the three, because it allows me to put down the people who are all like, “but it has a recycling symbol on the bottom, why can’t it be recycled?” And I get to say things like, “first it’s POLYSTYRENE not fucking styrofoam, which is the trade name for something it is now illegal to produce (CFCs), and second, just because they put a recycling sign on something doesn’t mean there’s someone out there who will bother to recycle it. It’s too expensive and inefficient to recycle something like polystyrene which is a really shitty complex polymer that never should have been invented. But they put the recycle sign on there anyway to make you feel better about yourself, and then people like me have to sort out all the recycling to take out the stuff idiots like you think can be recycled, because everyone seems to have this idea that recycling is a magical way to solve the waste problem, like a fairy is standing there waving a magic wand and making it all better. Why don’t YOU stand out in the cold rain up to your elbows in stale beer and rotten dairy products, sorting recycling, and then you’ll get a good idea of how the magic fairy lives.”

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